Vergara, Marina; Rezaei, Ahmadreza; Schramm, Georg; Rodríguez-Álvarez, María José; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Nuyts, Johan(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-09)
[EN] Several research groups are studying organ-dedicated limited angle positron emission tomography (PET) systems to optimize performance-cost ratio, sensitivity, access to the patient, and/or flexibility. Often open ...
Vergara, Marina; Rezaei, Ahmadreza; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Maria Jose; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Nuyts, Johan(KU Leuven, 2021-07-23)
[EN] Recently, a wide interest on organ-dedicated PET systems
has been shown. Some of those systems present geometries that produce an incomplete sampling of the tomographic data due to limited
angular coverage and/or ...
[EN] This study evaluates the performance of the Bruker positron emission tomograph (PET) insert combined with a BioSpec 70/30 USR magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner using the manufacturer acceptance protocol and the ...
[EN] There are drawbacks with using a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner design employing the traditional arrangement of multiple detectors in an array format. Typically PET systems are constructed with many regular ...
Lecoq, Paul; Konstantinou, Georgios; Latella, Riccardo; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Nuyts, Johan; Zhang, Lei; Barrio, John; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022-05)
[EN] We report on the progress on a first generation of
realistic size metascintillators for time-of-flight PET. These heterostructures combine dense LYSO or BGO plates, interleaved
with fast scintillator layers producing ...
Nuyts, Johan; Defrise, Michel; Gundacker, Stefan; Roncali, Emilie; Lecoq, Paul(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-05)
[EN] It is well known that measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF) increases the information provided by coincident events in positron emission tomography (PET). This information increase propagates through the reconstruction ...
[EN] Objective. Measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF) difference of each coincident pair of photons increases the effective sensitivity of positron emission tomography (PET). Many authors have analyzed the benefit of TOF ...